Yes, for every high risk or certainty of payout customer my insurance provider takes on that increases my rates and every other customer. Insurance isn't a charity, it's a business, see the government if you want a handout.
and an insurance company has no choice but to take a losing bet under the proposed system, where are the rights of the other customers of that insurance provider?
The reason you are charged higher rates is that men typically cause more (and more costly on payout) accidents, the statistics back it up. An insurance company that refuses coverage or increases rates based on known medical probabilities (and especially certainties) is making sound decisions and I fully support it.
I smoke, therefore I pay higher rates for life insurance, why shouldn't someone who had a genetic predisposition for lung cancer be penalized just as much as me?
If I'm Verizon and I'm having to put a $1000+ worth of fiber terminating equipment on the outside of a house I'm going to put it in markets where I have a chance to make the money back not have it stolen.
This is actually pretty close to achiveable, the disk and graphics are where it falls apart
Sun cluster +
32 Sun T2000's 2TB, 1024 Threads +
64 2xTenGbit cards +
64 Dual 4Gb fiber cards +
2 Cisco 6509's +
8 8 port 10gbit switch cards +
EMC DMX 950 1.2PB +
4 32 Port fiber switches
10-12 cabinets and a big honkin' AC and you're there bud
Agreed, the5ruralphonecompanies I worked for up until mid-'05 have been doing triple play FTTN Phone, DSL, and Video since 2000. Our GTE, Bellsouth, Verizon, Alltel, and Windstream competitors constantly drug their feet rolling out dsl, much less the TV leg of the triple.
You never saw the Man Show, they had a fake ad that in tone sounded like a life insurance spot, but the premise was, as a single guy you're going to leave shit behind your family doesn't need to see. If you have their service, Adam and Jimmy would come over and replace your den of filth, porn, and booze with a clean house, bibles and pictures of Jesus on the wall. My youtube-fu is weak, but it's funny shit.
Pointless to negotiate when the parties holding the trump card(s) have the resolve to hold out for an unconditional surrender. The backup plan if the A-bomb wasn't going to be ready was to launch a chemical attack on the upcoming rice harvest, blockade any food coming from Korea and Mainland China, and destroy the rail infrastructure. Basically the US was going to starve every man, woman, and child on the home islands, you seriously think that is a better solution than 200000 casualties in two blinding flashes.
That's a possibility. When you look at the upcoming AMD stuff (Quad core, Newisys Horus chipset) you could potentially build a 128 core opteron, the current biggest boy on the sparc side is the 144 core USIV+ 25000. You give me DSD's and a supermassive opteron and we can start talking about sun killing sparc.
Only in the mid to high end boxes. the 6800 and up (except the 10k and 12k) can mix and match USIII and USIV uniboards but we're talking about under 12 RU chasis.
Whhops, sorry about that, I had just been looking at the ass-end of a 490 and noted the PS's didn't have a release on the rear, but now looking through sunsolve I see the the ac inputs are fixed, but the guts of the PS's are HS. My bad
Except the smallest USIV box they make is the 490, 4RU and non-hs power supplies. Get me a 240 replacement with a USIV and I'll be all over it. Or better yet figure out how to add HS dual power and the USIV to the 210.
Yeah, at least at University of Kentucky, it is more than possible to pull off B.S. in Biology, B.S. Chemistry, a minor in Physics, minor in Math, and a B.A. in education in less than 160 hours
Amen
B.S. in Biology from my state's flagship institution, just as qualified to substitue as a kid with 60+ hours of college credit in any subjects in my state's farked up educational system. If I actually want a full-time job teaching I have to go back, take enough garbage credits for a BA in education (useful 12 hour semester as a student teacher not included). That's why I'm a sysadmin and not teaching.
How about uncle sam following the laws already on the books. i.e. The Americans with Disablities Act, Congress is not required to follow, same with overtime, minimum wage, Social Security (Government pension is great compared to either military pension or a big union pension, 401(k)'s can match or beat them if you get really lucky).
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Yes, for every high risk or certainty of payout customer my insurance provider takes on that increases my rates and every other customer. Insurance isn't a charity, it's a business, see the government if you want a handout.
and an insurance company has no choice but to take a losing bet under the proposed system, where are the rights of the other customers of that insurance provider?
The reason you are charged higher rates is that men typically cause more (and more costly on payout) accidents, the statistics back it up. An insurance company that refuses coverage or increases rates based on known medical probabilities (and especially certainties) is making sound decisions and I fully support it. I smoke, therefore I pay higher rates for life insurance, why shouldn't someone who had a genetic predisposition for lung cancer be penalized just as much as me?
I'll let someone else do the first installs.
I thought it was a bathroom plunger?
If I'm Verizon and I'm having to put a $1000+ worth of fiber terminating equipment on the outside of a house I'm going to put it in markets where I have a chance to make the money back not have it stolen.
This is actually pretty close to achiveable, the disk and graphics are where it falls apart
Sun cluster +
32 Sun T2000's 2TB, 1024 Threads +
64 2xTenGbit cards +
64 Dual 4Gb fiber cards +
2 Cisco 6509's +
8 8 port 10gbit switch cards +
EMC DMX 950 1.2PB +
4 32 Port fiber switches
10-12 cabinets and a big honkin' AC and you're there bud
Not to mention sanitizing the gene pool.
Agreed, the 5 rural phone companies I worked for up until mid-'05 have been doing triple play FTTN Phone, DSL, and Video since 2000. Our GTE, Bellsouth, Verizon, Alltel, and Windstream competitors constantly drug their feet rolling out dsl, much less the TV leg of the triple.
You never saw the Man Show, they had a fake ad that in tone sounded like a life insurance spot, but the premise was, as a single guy you're going to leave shit behind your family doesn't need to see. If you have their service, Adam and Jimmy would come over and replace your den of filth, porn, and booze with a clean house, bibles and pictures of Jesus on the wall. My youtube-fu is weak, but it's funny shit.
IANAL, but what judge would uphold a blind contract? To agree to the terms you must sign it (or verbally agree in states that allow verbal contract)
Pointless to negotiate when the parties holding the trump card(s) have the resolve to hold out for an unconditional surrender. The backup plan if the A-bomb wasn't going to be ready was to launch a chemical attack on the upcoming rice harvest, blockade any food coming from Korea and Mainland China, and destroy the rail infrastructure. Basically the US was going to starve every man, woman, and child on the home islands, you seriously think that is a better solution than 200000 casualties in two blinding flashes.
Why not Telco-grade -48VDC?
That's a possibility. When you look at the upcoming AMD stuff (Quad core, Newisys Horus chipset) you could potentially build a 128 core opteron, the current biggest boy on the sparc side is the 144 core USIV+ 25000. You give me DSD's and a supermassive opteron and we can start talking about sun killing sparc.
Only in the mid to high end boxes. the 6800 and up (except the 10k and 12k) can mix and match USIII and USIV uniboards but we're talking about under 12 RU chasis.
Danke, been a long night, but my point still stands, they aren't very dense boxes.
El Reg already covered the +5 boxes, they were supposedly using the USIIIi+, but maybe sun has woke up.
Whhops, sorry about that, I had just been looking at the ass-end of a 490 and noted the PS's didn't have a release on the rear, but now looking through sunsolve I see the the ac inputs are fixed, but the guts of the PS's are HS. My bad
Except the smallest USIV box they make is the 490, 4RU and non-hs power supplies. Get me a 240 replacement with a USIV and I'll be all over it. Or better yet figure out how to add HS dual power and the USIV to the 210.
We're being jerked around with "we can put a crew in orbit" instead of working on high speed probe drives and planetary exploration.
Yeah, at least at University of Kentucky, it is more than possible to pull off B.S. in Biology, B.S. Chemistry, a minor in Physics, minor in Math, and a B.A. in education in less than 160 hours
Amen
B.S. in Biology from my state's flagship institution, just as qualified to substitue as a kid with 60+ hours of college credit in any subjects in my state's farked up educational system. If I actually want a full-time job teaching I have to go back, take enough garbage credits for a BA in education (useful 12 hour semester as a student teacher not included). That's why I'm a sysadmin and not teaching.
No, I'm well aware they've been paying their 13% (SS+Medi*) but their retirement plan isn't bad for the amount of actualy work they do.
How about uncle sam following the laws already on the books. i.e. The Americans with Disablities Act, Congress is not required to follow, same with overtime, minimum wage, Social Security (Government pension is great compared to either military pension or a big union pension, 401(k)'s can match or beat them if you get really lucky).
Latin has the benefit of the Catholic Church keeping it alive for 1500 years after its native speakers died out, English does not have this luxury.